Hey guys, and girls, i'm yet another of these people who has contracted spyware, and i've looked over a lot of other threads that seem very like my problem, but aren't quite it.
If there is a thread describing (and fixing) my problem somewhere, i'd love a link, but otherwise, here is whats going on.
Like many others I have got a little red circle with a white X in it in my toolbar. Not only that, i have two, both of which regularly "remind" me that i have "got spyware, and they can help me get rid of it." they tell me to click on them to download "Microsofts" latest "antispyware"
Hmmmmm.....
I also had the desktop of doom, but different. Mine was blue, with a red square telling me i was infected. Duh.
I managed to get rid of that, by using Rawe's (i think) little registry edit.
Also, something was hogging my bandwidth horribly, and causing a lot of my desktop and toolbar programs to quit themselves, through lack of memory or something.
I downloaded AdAware, AVG 7, and SpyBot S and D. I also got that CCleaner thingy. i Have run adaware about 300 times, and it finds stuff every time. Spybot also finds stuff, and so does AVG. I thought i had beaten it last night, as everything was normal, but i restarted and it was back. Except the desktop.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Cheers in advance, Blakey
Hello and welcome here, Blakey :)
It sounds like if you´ve got the smitfraud infection. One of its variants.
Please do this:
Please go here and download Ewido Security Suit:
http://www.ewido.net/en/download/
A quick guide is found here:
http://www.greyknight17.com/spy/Tutorials/ewidoQuickGuide.pdf- Install ewido security suite
- Launch ewido, there should be an icon on your desktop double-click it.
- The program will now go to the main screen
You will need to update ewido to the latest definition files.
- On the left hand side of the main screen click update
- Then click on Start Update
The update will start and a progress bar will show the updates being installed.
If you are having problems with the updater, you can use this link to manually update Ewido.
Ewido manual updates (http://www.ewido.net/en/download/updates/)
Close the program for the time being.
then.....
Download
HiJack This from here: http://www.thespykiller.co.uk/files/HJTsetup.exe
This will download HiJack This to your computer, choose "Save" and navigate to the folder where it´s saved and doubleclick upon it.
This is a complete installer that installs Hijackthis onto the computer to C:\Program Files\HijackThis and makes an entry in the start menu & allows you to have a shortcut on desktop as well.
Do nothing with it yet.
then.......
Reboot into
safe mode. (Reboot your computer and during the startup process,tap the F8-key repetedly.)
Once in safe mode, open the Ewido scanner and........
- Click on scanner
- Click on Complete System Scan and the scan will begin.
On the first alert, a window will open prompting you to take action. Checkmark "Remove" and "Perform action on all detections".
- Once the scan has completed, there will be a button located on the bottom of the screen named Save report
- Click Save report.
- Save the report .txt file to your desktop.
Now close ewido security suite.
Reboot normally again.
then.........
Doubleclick the HJT icon on your desktop, hit "Do a system scan and save logfile". Save the logfile and a txt-file will be produced.. Copy that one and paste it here together with the report from Ewido and we´ll have a look at them.
regards
Die Hard :)
http://www.freedomlist.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=21957